going high hasn’t worked for us since what - 2000?

Yeahhh. I’m not at all about these “[financially] poor Republicans felt ignored and we should empathize with them” think pieces, but I do think it’s useful to observe how, as soon as one’s ideologies/political party falls out of power, some people start acting rashly, meanly, desperately, and stupidly. Can we please…

Normally I respect your posts and the freely given logic you use to support them.

From a customer standpoint, that’s basically done an irrelevant. If I wrong you, and we come up with a settlement to right that wrong, it’s like starting from scratch. Both sides have to honor the agreement.

Um... VW DID get punished. Did you kiss that part? And being forced to buy back all these cars at well over market value is PART OF THAT PUNISHMENT. VW really fucked up. I’m not denying that.

Thing is, a bunch of armchair lawyers chatting on a blog don’t interpret contract language, a judge does. Plain meaning is only the first method with which a judge can interpret contract language. To be honest, I don’t think the verbiage is as clear cut as everyone seems to think. Further, those clauses were written…

Yep, this guy strikes me as the type of asshole who trashes a house before it is foreclosed on. Yes, the bank (VW) may have made a shady deal but regardless of how bad the deal was it doesn’t make it morally justifiable to destroy property before it transfers to another party.

Appropriate screen name is appropriate. Hate to sound like I’m taking VW’s side in this but man do I not feel the least little bit bad for them telling this dude to fuck right off.

I’m of the opinion that it’s ok to strike a woman in all of the situations where it’s ok to hit a man, that is to say, almost never. You can usually de-escalate the situation or just leave altogether, but if for instance you’re in a situation where you can’t leave and someone is or is about to inflict significant…

You think “nebulous” is a big word? LOL.

1. He hasn’t been inconvenienced at all. He’s just being a petulant child.

What a prick. This is on par with those crybabies that try to pay their speeding tickets in pennies.

Leave it to a car salesman to use the letter of the law to screw someone.

I feel bad for you if you really took that seriously.

You’re illustrating the problem wonderfully.

I can only imagine that the oh-so thinly-veiled disdain liberals have for certain parts of middle America is in no way responsible for their unwillingness to vote for liberals.

I stopped at “pre-instantly”

Because if the republican controlled states start appointing electors who refuse to vote for a democrat the whole house of cards falls down.

As long as the punishment is equal, I don’t care how they call it.